Statistics
Virtually all students commute from either circumferent areas, however just about 1,000 students sleep in the residence hall on campus. An additional 400 infect the University Courtyard apartment complexes just murder of campus. All about 13% of the student person is international students from either 55 countries.

YSU is presently trying to acquire supplementary students to endure campus, by owning iniatives like required in-campus housing for students in their honors program, & the goal to use 20 percent of the student person last campus, when the portion of a placed of goals for the University's centenary around 2008.

Academics
A University is comprised of the as a consequence colleges: [http://www.as.ysu.edu/ The College of Arts and Sciences], [http://www.coe.ysu.edu/ The Beeghly College of Education], [http://www.eng.ysu.edu/ The Rayen College of Engineering and Technology], [http://www.fpa.ysu.edu/ The College of Fine and Performing Arts], [http://bchhs.ysu.edu/ The Bitonte College of Health and Human Services], [http://www.wcba.ysu.edu/ The Williamson College of Business Administration], and [http://www.ysu.edu/GradSchool/index.htm The School of Graduate Studies].

Athletics

YSU is within NCAA Division I. Nicknamed a Penguins, it play in the Horizon League and Gateway Football Conference, and compete in the resulting sports:

Baseball (men) Men/Women's Basketball Men/Women's Cross Country Football (men) Men/Women's Golf Soccer (women) Softball (women) Swimming & Diving (women) Men/Women's Tennis Men/Women's Track & Field Volleyball (women)

YSU has been particularly successful inside football, winning Quaternary NCAA Section We-AA championships around 1991, 1993, 1994, and 1997. It were runners-higher inside 1992 and 1999. Their coach across tons victims years was Jim Tressel, who is nowadays a head coach at Ohio State. YSU is running across the re-tooling cycle under fresh coach Jon Heacock, when it've failed to produce a play-offs when you took his tenure there, & it've struggled to go to to the championship times of the 90s.

An additional brilliantly spot is a baseball team, world health organization inside 2004, despite getting the losing record, won the Horizon League tournament & went to the College World Series regionals for the first time ever. Despite losing in the regionals, it was the wow achivement for the program.

No clear cause when to how come it is nicknamed a Penguins, however one of a extra widely accepted theories is that when you took a 1930s, when a five was swimming, it got been super cold outside, & one of a spectators said, "They look like penguins out there." Because of the nickname, the university has tried a couple of days to import a penguin from either Antarctica to try to live in the home ground on the campus. Unsurprisingly, a experiments stand failed every instance, since a penguins might't adapt to the climate inside Ohio.

YSU's mascots come Pete & Penny, deuce penguins dressed within scarfs & stocking caps.

Famous alumni
Jeff Wilkins, NFL player Ron Jaworski, NFL player & sports commentator Ed O'Neill, actor Carmen Policy, NFL executive Thomas Bopp, astronomer Ron Parise, astronaut Bob Davie, college football coach/ ESPN commentator